It’s festival season and I was fortunate enough to receive credentials for this year’s Fantastic Fest! Who knows why but I’m going to do my best to engage with the art and write some thoughtful reflections on what I see. Even though I am attending remotely, I’m going […]
The BBC Archive has video of a 1965 discussion of 1984 (1954). “Late Night Line-Up looks back on the 1954 BBC television adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, starring Peter Cushing, Yvonne Mitchell, Donald Pleasance and André Morell. The television play was performed live on the evening of Sunday […]
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival starts this week on September 5. Check out the line-up for this year’s Midnight Madness program and make your genre film plans accordingly! See it here. Make sure to click through here for Midnight Madness Programmer Peter Kuplowsky’s video about this year’s […]
Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou have returned with a new video essay at Every Frame A Painting! “What do you do when you’ve got two actors, a bunch of dialogue, and only enough time to get one camera angle? Consider one of the oldest tools in the filmmaking […]
Being a Whovian was one of my principal personality traits from 1985 until about 2020, and though I have a very casual relationship with the show now–which is truly about me, not it, I am old and busy, guys–people still come to me with little offerings and thoughts […]
At Biff Bam Pop, the Gutter’s own Angela Englert writes about the retro folk horror of Starve Acre! “With roiling atmosphere and vibes to spare, Daniel Kokotajlo’s Starve Acre (2023) hearkens to what many regard as a simpler, purer time–a time of cycles and seasons, of neighbors agreed […]